Doctoral Dissertation Research: Borderlands Justice: Women's Leadership in the Colonias of Dona Ana County, New Mexico

博士论文研究：无主之地正义：新墨西哥州多纳安娜县殖民地的妇女领导力

• 批准号: 9906691
• 负责人: Gillian Hart
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-12-01 至 2001-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9906691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Borderlands; Justice

Local communities throughout the world are feeling the effects of global capital on their regional economies and political systems, but relatively little attention has focused on how regionally subordinate communities respond to the changes that accompany their rapid integration into a global capitalist system. The colonias of the U.S.-Mexico border provide a distinctive yet somewhat representative glimpse of these processes in action. Colonias are rural, unincorporated, unregulated subdivisions of U.S. cities. They typically have substandard housing and lack access to fundamental necessities like safe clean water, waste-water treatment systems, and electricity. This doctoral dissertation research project will examine two major questions: What are the particular political and economic processes of the border region that lead to growth in the colonias and create the conditions of resource deprivation that colonia residents experience? How do people living in the colonias organize in order to address and deal with these problems? To answer these questions, a capable doctoral student is conducting intensive research in the 37 colonias of Dona Ana County in south central New Mexico. Longitudinal methods will be used to document the evolution of relations between the colonias and broader socioeconomic and political forces in the region as a whole, using secondary sources like the records and reports of the colonias development council, the Dona Ana County colonias commission, the Catholic church, and local government units. During the second phase of the project, the student will rely heavily on ethnographic methods as she focuses on questions of community organization. Surveys of a broad sample of colonia residents and in-depth interviews with long-standing residents will illuminate interactions between the people and institutions in the colonias and the non-local factors that are reshaping the communities, with special attention given to social dynamics within the colonias and how regional and larger-scale processes are experienced, interpreted, and acted upon in daily activities. Also under examination during this phase of the project will be the organizations formed by colonia residents to address a diverse set of issues and the roles that women play as leaders of these organizations and other community groups. In addition to clarifying the social processes at work in these rapidly evolving communities, this project will contribute to a range of theoretical perspectives, including critical human geography theories associated with the meanings of places created by local residents, feminist theories that examine how daily actions, place, and life experiences intersect to produce personal identifies, and environmental justice theories dealing with environmental and resource inequalities. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

世界各地的地方社区正在感受到全球资本对其区域经济和政治体系的影响，但相对较少的注意力集中在区域附属社区如何应对快速融入全球资本主义体系所带来的变化。 美国-墨西哥边境的殖民地为这些正在发生的过程提供了独特但又具有一定代表性的一瞥。 殖民地是美国城市的农村、非建制、不受监管的分区。 他们的住房通常不符合标准，并且无法获得安全清洁的水、废水处理系统和电力等基本必需品。 这个博士论文研究项目将研究两个主要问题：导致殖民地增长并为殖民地居民创造资源匮乏条件的边境地区特定的政治和经济进程是什么？ 居住在殖民地的人们如何组织起来解决这些问题？ 为了回答这些问题，一名有能力的博士生正在新墨西哥州中南部多纳安娜县的 37 个殖民地进行深入研究。 纵向方法将用于记录整个地区的殖民地与更广泛的社会经济和政治力量之间关系的演变，利用二手资源，如殖民地发展委员会、多纳安娜县殖民地委员会、天主教会和地方政府单位的记录和报告。 在项目的第二阶段，学生将严重依赖民族志方法，因为她专注于社区组织问题。 对殖民地居民的广泛样本的调查和对长期居民的深入访谈将阐明殖民地人民和机构之间的相互作用以及正在重塑社区的非本地因素，特别关注殖民地内的社会动态以及区域和更大范围的过程如何在日常活动中经历、解释和采取行动。 在该项目的这一阶段，还将审查由殖民地居民组成的组织，以解决一系列不同的问题，以及妇女作为这些组织和其他社区团体的领导者所扮演的角色。 除了阐明这些快速发展的社区中起作用的社会过程之外，该项目还将促进一系列的理论观点，包括与当地居民所创造的场所的意义相关的批判性人文地理学理论，研究日常行为、场所和生活经历如何相互交叉以产生个人认同的女权主义理论，以及处理环境和资源不平等的环境正义理论。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将为有前途的学生建立强大的独立研究生涯提供支持。